Sargeant Blackman

[Deskdiary]

The lunatic on Westminster continues, quite rightly, to be the main topic on the news at the moment, but let's hope for some good news that Sgt Blackman will be released today.

Having seen the recent Panorama documentary about Marine A, and the comments from the men in the field, and the undoubted extreme perssures they were under, makes me even more surprised at the now quashed murder conviction.

[Sqad]

A-H

"But the fact that I don't have direct experience does not my view either ignorant of arrogant, it makes it my view. "

I agree. But the adjectives that are used to describe you and your opinion is held by many, not all by a along way, but a vociferous body, who quite rightly see their right to express such views.

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //I agree. But the adjectives that are used to describe you and your opinion is held by many, not all by a along way, but a vociferous body, who quite rightly see their right to express such views. //

Again - no argument.

But I fail to see why, when others express their own views, in their own way, they are accepted, but I am vilified as arrogant and ignorant, when not unreasonably, I feel I am neither.

Anyone and everyone is entirely welcome to disagree with my view, and discuss it with me - what they are not entitled to do is to insult me because my view is different from theirs.

[Sqad]

A-H

"But I fail to see why, when others express their own views, in their own way, they are accepted, but I am vilified as arrogant and ignorant, when not unreasonably, I feel I am neither. "

LOL...and that is the secret of life, Andy, it happens to us all, even sqad suffers, it is all a matter of perception and opinion.

[ummmm]

So...it's the Andy show again!!

[naomi24]

What's new?

[anneasquith]

Wherever Andy is, we can be sure Naomi follows?.

[naomi24]

anneasquith, that reads like a statement - but then you add a question mark. Are you telling or asking - or don't you know?

[ummmm]

Is that actually a question, Anne?

[anneasquith]

Question mark was not intended, it was a statement.

[vulcan42]

anneasquith, there's an idiom, not quite sure how it goes, but it's something about a pot, a kettle and black.

[anneasquith]

Being the news topic I'm unable to reply to you're observations observations. Gents ? :-)

[andy-hughes]

Returning to the thread (!)

I think the situation with Sergeant Blackman has been a complex and emotional one, and I hope that the powers-that-be see that if he was to be punished, he has been punished, and if his incarceration was to set an example, that the example has been set, and he is able to re-join his family.

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //LOL...and that is the secret of life, Andy, it happens to us all, even sqad suffers, it is all a matter of perception and opinion. //

Wise words, I shall take them on board - thank you.

[Sqad]

A-H...Yes, I agree and think that you ave summed it up well.

[Deskdiary]

andy-hughes at 10.46.

I couldn't agree more if I tried.

[Baldric]

///Baldric - //Yet another thread ruined by arrogant nonsense. //
If threads are only ever not 'ruined' by people saying things that you agree with, then you are on the wrong site///

I was referring to the arrogant nonsense spouted by PP,
but as usual you seem to believe it can only be all about you.

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - //I was referring to the arrogant nonsense spouted by PP,
but as usual you seem to believe it can only be all about you. //

It doesn't matter who it is about - it is offensive, unnecessary, and stops the flow of debate.

[Baldric]

//It doesn't matter who it is about - it is offensive, unnecessary, and stops the flow of debate//

The debate was not flowing at the time, and that nonsense added nothing to it imo.